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When it came to picking wedding colors, I knew that I would stay away from colors such as pink or purple simply because Mr. E is not a fan of them. We talked about it shortly after we were engaged and decided that the best way to make the wedding about us would be to use our favorite colors: blue & green.
My ring on sample fabrics of the shades of blue and green that we aim to use for the wedding
Our bathroom is in the beachy blue and green colors which led us to our “theme.” My family has always loved to travel, and that was one of the things that Mr. E found interesting when we first started talking on Match.com. Since we’ve been together, we’ve been on wonderful trips to San Antonio, Las Vegas, Philly, New Orleans, Disney, a Caribbean cruise, and more. We decided that if we were going to have a theme to tie in to the reception and some of the paper products, travel would be perfect. Here is a picture of a cake that sparked my travel-theme interest.
We’ll be incorporating the theme and colors into our paper products, the bridesmaids’ dresses, the groomsmen’s ties and (hopefully) socks, flowers, and table names. I’m really excited to get to work with these colors and theme, as is our planner who said that she has never done a wedding in our colors before!
What colors did you chose for your wedding? Did your FI give his opinions on colors?
I love how bright the colors are! Can’t wait to see more!
Those are gorgeous colors! Tying into your theme we ventured into the wedding cottage and saw the neatest idea using old maps, they made full circle folded paper fans and hung them from the windows with pretty bows in the middle. It doesn’t sound as cool as they were while I’m trying to explain it though. LOL I love that cake too!
Love the colors! And I can’t wait to see how your travel theme turns out as that is something I want to incorporate as well into our wedding!
@TaraS: That sounds really interesting! I wish I could see a pic of it 
My colors were royal blue (ok, I called it “UCLA Blue”) and lime green - I got a lot of the same comments about never seeing those colors together before…
Our photographer’s preview if you want to see the colors in action: http://blog.shoelessjohnny.com/2010/07/05/aaron-and-meghan-wub-true-wub/
I built our theme around the concept of grass.
Love that cake! Both of us really like navy blue, so that is definitely one of our wedding colors.
Great colors, Ele! Mr. B and I combined our favorites and that’s how we came up with the Violet, Charcoal, Slate combo!
@UCLAMeghan: Meghan, your wedding looks fabulous! I love your blue shoes, your bouquet and the grass in your centerpieces.
OMG those are my colors too! SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THEM! My future hubbies favorite color is blue and mine is green I love it!
The bright colors look great! We are having a fall wedding, and I wanted to steer clear of traditional fall colors so I went with navy and charcoal, but decided I needed hot pink too (ya know to brighten it up:))
Ooo! I love travel-themed weddings! Mr. G and I go abroad at least once or twice a year, we are definitely gonna try to figure out a way to incorporate that. Can’t wait to see your ideas!
@MsBunting: Those sound like beautiful colors, the pink will definitely add a little bright punch!
These are going to be very similar to our colors. I wanted to go with a brighter shade of blue (like a turquoise) and the bright green, but we ended up with royal blue and haven’t quite decided on a kelly green or a lime green.
Ok, I was finally able to sign up for the site. Yesterday it was telling me I wasn’t human. Good to know. I’m all subscribed to your blog! Ready for the ride!
@Kelly - We really loved these colors (in the picture) but found it harder to actually find everything in those shades so our colors morphed more into a royal blue and lime green.
@lynnmichelle: Yay! It’s going to be a fun 8 months to go
Go blue and green weddings! Our colors were navy blue and apple green. Just a tip: pick your green carefully! I found green paper that I absolutely LOVED at Paper Presentation and Paper and More but then it was sooo hard to match that green to anything else (labels, ribbon, wraps, etc). Most greens are sage or chartruese and the green I picked wasnt either. Ties werent a problem to find but I just could not find any green socks! Hopefully you’ll have better luck than I did.
Wow We must think alike! That’s my same ring!!! and my bridesmaids are wearing “Clover” for their dresses. It’s a bright green from Bill Levkoff.
@Ashley: Lol, my girls are wearing Bill Levkoff too, but in royal blue.
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Mrs. Elephant, Dallas, TX Age and Occupation: 27, Financial Operations Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, IT Student/Store Manager Engagement Date: March 29, 2009 Wedding Date: April 2011 Venue: The Tribute Golf Club About Me: I'm a Philly native creating roots deep in the heart of Texas. I might be a little obsessed capturing those Kodak moments of anything and everything (mainly on vacations). I've become more of a gamer thanks to Mr. Elephant, who I met online and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with. We are planning a wedding based on our favorite colors, blue and green, with a travel theme for 150 of our closest friends and family. Hopefully our long (2-year) engagement won't kill me!
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